Gop, Odisha

Gop
Village
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Coordinates: 19.98°N 86.01°E / 19.98; 86.01
Country	India
State	Odisha
District	Puri
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Languages
• Official	Odia
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	OD
Website	odisha.gov.in

Gop (also known as "Gope")[1][2][3] is a Village and a Grama Panchayat in the Puri district of the Indian state of Odisha.

Geography

Gop is located at 20.00°N 86.01°E / 20.00; 86.01.[4] It has an average elevation of 6 metres (20 ft).

Gop is famous for the Sun temple, Kathiawar (5th and 6th century AD) comprises square sanctum circumscribed by double courtyards.[5] The important places like Biratunga,[6] Begunia, Nimapara, Nagapur, Kakatpur, Bhaimapur, Ganeswarpur, Kusabhadra surround Gop.

It is about thirty kilometres from Puri, at the junction where the Konark road branches from the Bhubaneswar-to-Puri road.[7]

Politics

Gop is part of Jagatsinghpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[8]

See also

• Kushabhadra River
• Ganeswarpur
• Swami Nigamananda
• Basudeipur Sub Village
• Konark

References

1. Gop Map — Satellite Images of Gop
2. "Weather statistics for Gop in Odisha (India)". Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
3. Gop PIN Code, Puri
4. Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Gop
5. Harish Chandra Das (1985). Cultural development in Orissa. Punthi Pustak. p. 262.
6. "Village Biratunga is located near Gop". Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
7. various. Eng Mahabharata Revisited 1. Sahitya Akademi. p. 2. ISBN 978-81-260-2123-9.
8. "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Odisha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 17 September 2008.